On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 08:06:20 +0100 Philip Ashmore <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sometimes the sound starts muted and I have to enable it with kmixer > which tells me that I have two mixers, PulseAudio and "HDA Intel PCH". > > Maybe that's because I end the session with earphones plugged in and > start it with them unplugged, not sure. "HDA Intel PCH" is the underlying ALSA mixer and PulseAudio is layered on overtop. ALSA is the real sound system--Pulse just offers some auxiliary services like easier Bluetooth association, and you may not need it at all if your sound system only involves local wired speakers and/or headphones. (Early versions of PulseAudio were also notoriously buggy, but hopefully you're not running a really old version.) The automute could be coming from a conflict between the two layers, or from ALSA being unable to save settings on system shutdown for some reason. E. Liddell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
